Thursday, 24 March 2011

Not t-shirt related, but with the impending might of Sucker Punch hitting us square in the face very soon, I wanted to do some artwork relating to it. It hit me that these girls would look damn good in a Powerpuff Girl style so gave it a go.

Pretty pleased how it turned out - I just hope the movie DOESN'T live up to the press it has been getting recently........

Sucker Punch is released in the UK April 1st - I've been excited about this movie for ages!

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Had this idea yesterday and got straight on it -One of my favourite movie posters is the iconic 'Full Metal Jacket' helmet poster, so simple yet so effective. Using that as a starting point I painted the artwork above in Photoshop.

Below is the same artwork, but with a few stages of the process. A lot of people ask me how I do things and this may be a little insight.

Many thanks to Dave Lee over at Sabotage Times for his fantastic mention of Dark Bunny Tees in his 'Pop Culture' t-shirts article.

"...Dark Bunny takes films as a starting point but rather than featuring fictional logos their intricate, often distressed-looking designs extend the concept further. Designs take the form of fake ads, flyers and business cards for fictional film businesses. You get wonderfully intricate in-jokey flyers for Marty McFly’s band from Back to the Future, Patrick (American Psycho) Bateman’s business card and adverts for True Grit’s Cogburn’s Whisky, all ingeniously packaged in VHS cassette boxes. Everything is the creation of one-man-band whizz kid Alex Chenery and his newly-founded living room enterprise was rewarded in 2010 when Twitter plugs from super-fan Simon Pegg caused his profile to rocket."

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Over the past month or so, myself and my brother in-law Simon have been discussing ideas regarding a collection of Rocky themed shirts.

It all began with Simon's Drago Training Gulag concept, which he came up with a while back. A few weeks ago I took it upon myself to put the gears in motion and create a fully digital finished design. We were both so pleased with how it came out that we decided that there were other 'fighters' in the franchise worthy of a t-shirt design. The seeds of the collection were planted.

So here it is! After a lot of hard work, the FIVE, yes FIVE t-shirt collection is now available to pre-order, with a print date in April.

The Four main designs will all be available to buy individually in the next week or so (As of right now, it is just as a set), but those champs & dedicated Rocky fans that bite the bullet and invest in the whole collection, will also get the EXCLUSIVE fifth design absolutely FREE.

So, check out the five designs below!

Balboa's Meat LockerInspired by Rocky (1976)

Drago's Training GulagInspired by Rocky IV (1985)

Lang's Cell of PainInspired by Rocky III (1982)

Creed's Traveling ShowmenInspired by Rocky IV (1985)

BONUS Design - FREE and EXCLUSIVE to those who purchase the full set*

Paulie-Tech: M.I-Gurl RobotInspired by Rocky IV (1985)

As I say, the four main designs will be available individually very soon, but to get your hands on the exclusive PAULIE-TECH design, you can get your hands on the full set below!